MORNING PRACTICE "The key is to be quiet. It’s not that your mind has to be quiet. You be quiet. You, the one inside watching the neurotic mind, just relax. You will then naturally fall behind, because you have always been there. You are not the thinking mind, you are aware of the thinking mind. The minute you stop putting your whole heart and soul into the mind as if it were your savior and protector, you will find yourself behind the mind watching it." - Michael Singer· #meditation#vipassana#mindfulness#practice#justsit#committosit#dailypractice#trainyourmind#befriendallthoughts#getquiet

FRIDAY FOR THOUGHTS⠀.⠀Even when we are highly inspired to change our lifestyle habits, it can be tricky to teach our mind what we want and it gets harder to keep in control and not allowing our mind to play games with us.⠀.⠀When we start changing our lifestyle, our body and mind will try to hold us back to the old habits, once it is our comfort zone and changes are always frightening.⠀.⠀Our mind is the most powerful tool we have and to achieve whatever our goals may be we need to work hard on it.

"Before we can extend our compassion to others, we first have to extend it to ourselves. How do we do this? We have to look at our own mind and appreciate how our own neurotic expressions – our confused thoughts and disturbing emotions – are actually helping us wake up. Our aggression can help us develop clarity and patience. Our passion can help us let go of attachments and be more generous. Basically, once we see that this mind of confusion is also our mind of awakening, we can appreciate it and have confidence in our ability to work with it. It’s a good mind after all, the mind that will carry us to enlightenment. When we understand this, we can begin to let go of our previous attitude of revulsion toward our emotions." -Ponlop Rinpoche #stayfocused#staywoke#stayhumble#levitatehigher#loveyourself#awakenings#selflove#newbeginnings

"The more you listen to the mind, the more your mind will drag you! But the less you listen to your mind, the further you will be away from it! And the easier it will be to realise your Self." — Sri Swami Vishwananda dreamy celestite on wanderingcrystals.com

Romans 12:2 reminds us of the importance of renewing our mind. Renewing our mind not only impacts our spiritual senses, but it also has the power to change our thought processes towards ourselves and others. Like Paul suggests, consider renewing your mind daily. ⠀